"It's a good distraction," Finnick offers.

With the number of mutts in this place, one of which has actually killed people (not just people, Peeta, the kid who hadn't deserved any of this who'd still died), snakes that people have been known to survive probably shouldn't be this much of a concern to Finnick. He hadn't realized they would be. He gives the bag full of snake a wary look and slowly straightens from the defensive pose he'd struck.

"What happened with Kelly?" he asks. "I wasn't trying to do anything, the snake just surprised me."